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Ray Dalio
American
Businessman
Born:
Aug 8
,
1949
Down
Like
Money
People
Will
You
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I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.
Ray Dalio
Humanity
Ego
Problem
Believe
Out
Weaknesses
Finding
Faces
Wrong
Identifying
Biggest
Whether
Sensitivity
Biggest Problem
Right
Strengths
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
Ray Dalio
Will
Eat
He
Glass
Shattered
Crystal
Crystal Ball
Ball
Who
Lives
There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.
Ray Dalio
Class
Inflation
Main
Drivers
Returns
Asset
Growth
Two
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
Ray Dalio
People
Money
Society
Earned
Gave
Those
Give
Return
How
How Much
How Much Money
Rewards
Wanted
Wants
Much
Measure
Who
Rough
Why
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.
Ray Dalio
Future
You
Down
Cash
Rates
Investor
Putting
Doing
Up
Interest
Interest Rates
Payment
Flow
Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.
Ray Dalio
Spend
Reduce
Debt
Your
Less
Belt
Pull
I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
Ray Dalio
Saying
You
Relationships
Machine
Economic
Like
Understand
How
Just
Works
Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.
Ray Dalio
Best
You
Mistake
Economics
Think
Spending
Demand
Goods
Know
Terms
Quantity
Traditional
Measure
Measured
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
Ray Dalio
Country
Rates
Given
Likely
Currency
Interest
Interest Rates
Decline
Almost everything is like a machine.
Ray Dalio
Everything
Machine
Almost
Almost Everything
Like
So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?
Ray Dalio
Work
Nature
You
Business
People
Financial
Community
Human Nature
Machine
Financial Crisis
Crisis
Run
Does
How
Human
Raise
The economy is like a machine.
Ray Dalio
Machine
Like
Economy
I don't get caught up in the moment.
Ray Dalio
Caught
Up
Get
Moment
When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.
Ray Dalio
You
People
Rich
Other
Threatening
Throat
Becomes
Left
Very
Get
Breakdown
Poor
Each
Right
Basic
In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.
Ray Dalio
Problem
Financial
Problems
Recession
Also
Causes
Than
Anything
China
Meaning
Less
Growth
Disruptive
When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.
Ray Dalio
Inflation
Down
Go
Up
Stocks
Growth
Bonds
A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic.
Ray Dalio
Beautiful
Words
Money
Three
Other
Dramatic
Restructuring
Balances
Printing
Mix
Austerity
Debt
Options
Done
In Other Words
Certain
Right
Amount
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.
Ray Dalio
Positive
Beautiful
Time
Slow
Down
Slow Growth
Go
Same
Same Time
Growth
I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.
Ray Dalio
Difference
Notice
Moment
Meditate
Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.
Ray Dalio
People
Jobs
Like
Know
Make
Sure
Your
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